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Super America: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

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Anne Panning explores American life from all points of view: estranged tourist, new widow, an ovulating hopeful, budding entrepreneur, a college-aged victim of his broken family. It is not only the American life that Panning divulges, but the tiny tragedies and tiny victories of life itself. It is a refreshing read. Her characters are real, but in strange situations: riding in a car with a mini-horse and a lemur, frog-leg hunting with husband and sister. There is a real sense of displacement and loneliness, but not without the naturally-occuring humor that comes with life. It wasn't just the interesting props that kept me reading, it was the emotion. In a word: poignant!